I have 6 pages to my website and the whole website shows only about the width of one half page. I have followed the steps outlined above and nothing seems to work. I know I am not doing something that I need to be doing. But , maybe the twentieth time will be the charm. Thank you.

I really appreciate your comments. I find it hard that so many employees of Homestead have solutions yet Homestead takes my money each month but refuses to help solve the problems people have. Apparently I am not the only one with Homestead that is having so much trouble. You are kind Mike to offer help. It has not helped yet so why this time. Ken

I am assuming you want to move the remaining elements up? If so, then you can tag them by holding the shift key and clicking each element. Once you have them all tagged, you can drag them all up higher on the page. Once done with that, you can then click on the black rectangle that is your background color and make it shorter. If you have something else in mind, please explain.

Am I the only one whose site doesn't extend all the way to the edge once fully viewed? I'm tired of paying $23.99 a month for a site that doesn't look professional because of this issue. Is there a way I can reconcile this problem myself?

Try clicking on the image that you wish to move, then immediately look to the lower right hand side in the properties editor. You will see a box that says "Lock position and size". If you un check the box, it will allow you to move or re-size the image.

This is not what was meant. How can one create a small page that when published opens a small window page? The changes that are described here do not change the size of the page when it is visited. How can that be accomplished. Can anyone help?

Ruben8365, I think you are referring to something different. Are you wanting to create a link, that opens a a page in a new window, but in a smaller size? If so it's possible but requires some custom coding.

Hello, Yes, thank you very much. I have been wracking my brain trying to find the way to accomplish this. Homestead used to have this available once many years ago and it disappeared for good. Can you point me in the right direction, It would be really appreciated.

When you create a link to a new page, there's a window that pops up where you can tell SiteBuilder what you are linking to, ie a page or file, another URL, etc.

If you select the button to link to another URL, you'll see another option that says "open in a new window". This feature has always been there, but, it just lets you open any url in the standard/ default window size. If you are wanting to create a pop up that opens the window in a smaller designated size, that will require custom coding. Here's some info that another customer shared showing one method: https://community.homestead.com/homes...

I would like to know why we can't adjust the width using percentages instead of pixels. Usually, a webmistress would tell it to make the page 100% - this way, it fits most monitors/displays. Using the pixel method makes it static and cannot possibly be viewed perfectly by all sizes of displays.

From Homestead employee....."You can make your pages wider so that they fill your entire monitor. However keep in mind that other viewers with smaller monitors may need to scroll left and right to see the entire page."

This is totally unacceptable. I have just recently become aware of how bad my website looks on some monitors. Can anyone think of any professional website you have ever visited where you had to "scroll left and right to see the entire page"?? It looks terrible!

Why can't we just set page width to 100%? Please work on a fix for this. It is the only thing I am unhappy about with my Homestead Website but it makes me want to move on to a different website builder!
Thanks

I just got a new computer. I see the website that I have designed now only fits 1/3 of the monitor screen when published. I have the pixel width set to 1005. How can I get this to fit the window better? site is hotdogworld.net

Most of the templates are about 850 to 950 in width. But with today's new wide screen monitors you can generally make the site up to about 1100 or maybe 1200 without making people scroll left and right. I would not recommend going above 1200.

After you increase the width of your page, you'll be able to redesign the page contents and widen all the elements out if you wish.

Changing the width does not work. I am spending to much time on things that should be just a minor adjustment. MY PAGE LOOKS RIDICULOUS!!!! Especially advertising i do web design. I am finding another company. This is NUTS!!!

I just pulled up your site and on the index page you have the width set to 300px. The width of the page has to be = or > than the widest element on the page or wide enough to accommodate the placement of your elements. Change the width to about 1100 or 1200, keep the contents centered and it will be fine.

Thats not my website. I got that on the homestead template page as an example. How do you make a image, or shape automatically fill the page. If you click that website, that border always takes up the entire website, no matter what zoom, or what screen size you are on. So it can't be just set at a certain pixel width. Right now, I have been just using a solid color and setting my width on my websites. But I want to change it to there is a border at the top and bottom that are specific shapes and colors that always fill the screen, and then the other elements stay in the middle? make sense?

That is usually done with custom CSS code in the head section. Or if you want you could create your own background image and import it under the Page Settings button. The second option might be easier, but, there drawbacks. If you don't make your image large enough it will start to repeat with a tile effect if someone has a large enough screen and expands their browser large enough.

CSS would be the better method but it requires custom code. You might try to search Google for the instructions or maybe find some free code to use.

Another drawback would be if you make the image too large, then there is scrolling that people will do correct? CSS is the only way to make it so automatically fills the screen huh. Thank you I will look into it.

Correct. You could make the background image about 1200px tall which would fit most screens fine, but if someone scrolls down, then they'll see the line (whatever color it is), repeated at the bottom of the page, so yes, CSS is the most professional way.

It does not seem like CSS is taking in the head section. I found a very simple code just to try it out on a blank page. http://tester3208.homestead.com/. I inserted the HTML code for the image, and then the CSS code I found. The image shows, but the CSS code i found just shows text.

I asked this question previously:
"I'm creating a background image in Adobe Photoshop. How many pixels wide and tall should I make it for Homestead? I am currently using a 1084 pixel width page setting

Mike F. replied to me:

"The width you make it is entirely up to you. There's not a right or wrong size. I usually start my pages at about 1000-1100 px wide. I would not recommend going beyond 1200 for most sites though. People tend to become annoyed if they have to scroll left to right."

I created a background image that was 1084 pixels wide, uploaded it to Homestead as the background, Previewed the page, and it only took up a small amount of space in the top left and then tiled. The rest of the elements that I've placed on that page show normally, and do take up more of the page in the browser.

Is there some setting anywhere on Homestead that can set this 1084 pixels wide background image that I've created to take up the ENTIRE background?
If so PLEASE tell me exactly where to go on Homestead, what to do, and what to make the settings.

how can my background image be uploaded to take up the entire background, where are these particular settings and WHAT do they need to be set at?

I read through various posts but am still unable to get the length of page adjust automatically - in some pages the text goes beyond the background! I tried disabling the master page setting but when I do it, it does not let me adjust the page length! What am I missing???

My favorite solution to this is to leave the master page enabled, as then you can have the ease of use. On any page that needs lengthening, just add a rectangle to the bottom of your master page background, then match the color. This way you can adjust each page that needs it and you won't have a really long background on a page with less content.

One other question though - now that I've got the 1st layer of background sorted, there is the last layer which is actually an image. If I try pulling the image - it gives me issue as above - it does it for all pages and when I disable the master page, it does not let me edit image. I'd like to retain that image as it gives a nice finish to the page - like a hazy border. Thanks in advance for your help! Much appreciated.

The problem with images is that if you resize them to be larger it will destroy the quality of the image. Either you proportionally enlarge it and it is just plain low quality, or if you make it longer and not wider because the page width has been reached then you get a stretched image. It won't look good.

I have changed the width of my pages, but they look silly at 1200 because my screen is so much bigger. I would like to fill the screen, but realize that it will be irritating to others who have a smaller screen. Has the option of % been added?? Would be really nice!
If not, how do I get the image to be centered after I enlarge it? Right now it is lopsided with my content more to the right side.
Thank you!

Page length:
How do I remove some rows in the middle of the page without dragging everything below those rows up?
Let's say I have a page with 10,000 rows. I want to remove rows 4,500 to 5,000. There was a picture in that spot which I deleted.
Now there is a blank space there.
I would like to just high-lite those rows and delete them.
How do I do that?

Sorry but the ruler and grid is only there so you can visually line up the elements on the page. it does not have any function as far as the design of the site goes. You can't delete, or add rows and columns to the grid.

You don't understand: I only used the ruler to explain what I need to do! I know that they don't serve any real purpose in editing; that's why I am here asking!
Let me try again: In the middle of a long web page I removed one picture. Now there is an empty space there. How do I get rid of that empty space? Since it is in the middle of a huge page I can't just move up the content below it to fill the gap.

You are correct that as you add items to a page it automatically gets longer. When you place any element on a page (text, pictures etc), the sitebuilder records the location (which you can see in the properties editor). Each element is set a certain number of pixes from the top left corner of the page. So, in your example, if you remove item 499, out of 1000 items, it does not change the location of items 500-1000. They are fixed at the location you place them.

I believe that SiteBuilder Plus allows you to group various elements into one. To accomplish want you want, group all of the elements located below the place where the picture used to be. You can then move them up all together.

The only problem with this method might be the ability to "ungroup" the elements. If you can't ungroup them, you would not be able to delete any of the individual elements because they are all one element now.

You can ungroup them after they've been grouped. If you have created a group, then just click on any element that's part of the group, and look to the right side in the properties editor and you'll see an option to "ungroup elements'

When building my website. Once i set up the page and under page properties i center content. When viewing on web brower it isnt centered. I have adjusted the background and the elements and it looks center in the website builder. But when i view its not centered.

My website template for the site navigation menu only has a width of 536. I would like to display more page names. However, when I go to edit the site navigation, the width field is blocked. What options do I have?

I can't edit my published site. Every time I try to edit the site, the website manager loads with a giant gray checked box over the edit screen, I can only see the far left side of the screen. Because of this I have parts of the website that are not lined up properly and a spelling mistake that I can't see to correct! Help please

You can set the width a shown above, but I'm not sure if I fully understand your question. It will not auto-adjust for mobile if that is what you are thinking. If you want, and expect a significant amount of mobile traffic, you'll really wan to create an a mobile version of the site.

Once you set the page width according to the instructions above, it will not change. If you are still having problems please tell us the page names and explain in more detail what you are seeing on your end.

You have elements on the page which are wider than the actual page width setting. You'll want to increase the page width (to around 1000 or 1100 px), and then you should be able to center the contents much easier.

You can edit the page width as per thhe above instructions. I wouldn't go over 1200 though as a significant number of people still use 1280 as the width on their monitors.. With so many different resolution options these days, there is going to be some space on the outside of your site. As an example, my width is set to 1920 pixels on my monitor, but if I developed a website at 1850 pixels to look good on my monitor, the majority of visitors would ave to scroll left and right to view my site.